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REGULATIONS 



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PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, 



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Published by order of the faculty, 



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GETTYSBURG: 

Printed b^y Robert g. harper. 

1839. 






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REGULATIONS. 



The Faculty is composed of all the persons regularly ap- 
pointed as Professors of the Institution ; a majority of whom 
after due notice has been given of a meeting, shall constitute a 
quorum, and shall have power to transact any business coming 
before them in accordance with the Statutes of the Institution. 

The Faculty shall appoint a Secretary, who shall keep a 
book of records, in which a fair statement of their proceedings 
shall be recorded. 

The government of the College is essentially vested in the 
Faculty, who are empowered to enforce the Statutes of the In- 
stitution. 

The government of the College shall be administered as 
nearly as possible after the manner of a well regulated family. 

No Student shall be admitted into this Institution who does 
not bear a good moral character. 

Every Student shall obligate himself to obey the laws of 
this Institution, and shall subscribe his name to the following 
form, to be kept in a book for that purpose : 

"/, A. B. solemnly promise on my truth and honor to observe 
and obey all the laws, rules and regulations of Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, and that I will abstain from the prof anation of die Lord's 
day, from the use of profane language, from all kMds of gam- 
blmgjrom all indecent, disorderly behavior, and from disrespect- 
ful conduct toivards my instructors and others- " 

Each Student shall write in a book, called a matriculation 
book, his name at full length, and the name and place of abode 



of his parent or legal guardian ; and no young man shall be 
considered fully a member of this Institution until he shall have 
been matriculated. This matriculation shall take place six 
weeks after he shall have been admitted ; during which time he 
shall be on probation, and if his conduct shall be rude or disor- 
derly or immoral, at the expiration of that time, or some circum- 
stances require it, he shall be privately dismissed or sent home. 

Every Student shall be required to attend worship every 
Lord's-day at the College Church, except his parents or guardian 
should otherwise designate. Besides the regular worship of the 
sanctuary, each Student will be required to attend a Biblical re- 
citation every Lord's-day, conducted by one of the Professors. 

The hours of recreation shall be from 8 to 9 o'clock in the 
morning ; from 12 to 2 ; and from 5 \ to 7 \ in winter, and 8, p. m. 
during the summer. At all other hours Students will be ex- 
pected to be in their respective rooms. 

There shall be two vacations in a year, to commence on the 
third Thursday of April and September, and continue five weeks. 

No Student shall frequent or unnecessarily visit a tavern 
pr eating-house. 

No Student shall, during term-time, be permitted to attend 
a ball, private dancing-party, dancing-school, theatrical exhibi- 
tion, or any place of resort for like amusement, except that Stu- 
dents, whose parents or legal guardians live in town, shall be 
under their direction out of the Institution : Provided always, 
ftiat they be not guilty of any immorality which the Professors 
may think detrimental to the welfare of the Institution. 

£v> Student shall leave town without permission during the 
session of the College, except for exercise or amusement during 
the hours appropriated to that purpose. 

All Students will be expected to observe Christian propriety 
of deportment during the vacations. 

The tuition shall be Twelve Dollars for the summer, an4 
Eighteen for the winter session, payable in advance. 



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Students entering before the middle of the session will be 
required to pay for the whole session ; if they enter after* one- 
half of it shall have expired, one-half of the same shall be re- 
quired. 

If any Student should fail to pay the tuition money at the 
specified time, he shall be required to make such arrangements 
with the Treasurer as by him shall be deemed satisfactory, and 
he shall not be permitted to recite until he comply with the a- 
bove requisitions. 

If any Student decline occupying the room assigned accor- 
ding to the regulations of the Board, the President having pro- 
nounced the distribution correct, he shall be dismissed from the 
Institution. 

No Student shall be admitted to the occupancy of a room, 
nor resume its possession at a subsequent session, without hav- 
ing presented to the locating officer, a receipt for his room-rent, 
for said session, from the Treasurer of the College. 

No undergraduate shall reside in the College Edifice, during 
vacation, without the consent of the President. 

If any Student, to whom a room is assigned, absent him- 
self from College beyond the time allowed him, or be vexatious 
to his room-mate, or injure the room, or if there be any other 
sufficient cause, the President may, at his discretion, take from 
him the room, and he shall be dealt with as the President may 
see fit. 

No Student shall walk abroad, or be absent from his room, 
(except to attend the Collegiate exercises,) in the hours of study. 

All damage done to the College edifice or property, in term 
time, shall be assessed under the direction of the President, and 
charged as follows : 

1. All damage done to any portion of the College edifice or 
property, shall be charged to the individual causing it, if he be 
known. 



2. All injury done to private rooms by an unknown person 
or persons, in term time, shall be charged to the occupants of 
the room. 

3. Injury done to the Lecture-rooms, Prayer-hall, passages, 
and all other parts of the College edifice and property, except 
private rooms, by unknown persons, shall be charged to the 
whole^community of Students. 

If any Student shall play at hand or foot-ball in the College 
edifice or College yard, or throw any thing, which might dam- 
age the College buildings or property, he may be fined ; and if 
he refuse to desist, when required by any member of the Faculty, 
he may be suspended, sent home, or dismissed. 

Every Student shall abstain from all noise of any kind du- 
ring study hours, in the College edifice or its vicinity. 

No Student shall keep or fire any gunpowder in or near the 
College premises ; nor play at any unlawful game, or at any 
game for a wager. 

The lot adjoining that of the College shall be appropriated 
for a College Campus, for the purpose of exercise and play by 
the Students in leisure hours. 

Each room of the Students shall be visited daily by the 
Senior Tutor, at such hour as the President shall from time to 
time direct. 

No Student shall, during his connection with the College, 
be permitted to attend any political celebration. 

The Faculty are instructed to see that nothing relating to 
party politics, be admitted into the public exercises of the Insti- 
tution. 

In the hours of recreation, Students are permitted, on the 
Lord's day, to walk for exercise in the College grounds, or vi- 
cinity of the College, but shall not be permitted to visit the town 
except to attend worship ; nor shall they be permitted to make 
visits. 



No more than two Students shall be permitted to walk 
together, nor shall they engage in any sport, or noisy exercise. 

No Student shall be permitted to ride either on horse-back, 
or in any vehicle, on the Lord's day. 

After service, on the Lord's day Evening, the Students will 
be required to be in their rooms in fifteen minutes after the 
dismission of the assembly. 

No Student shall be permitted to attend any religious or 
other meeting, during the evenings of the week, without special 
permission, except the regular prayer meeting on Saturday eve- 
nings, and the monthly concert of prayer on the first Monday 
in the month, and they shall return to their rooms fifteen minutes 
after the meeting ; neither shall they visit any family in town 
after the meeting. 

No Student shall be permitted to smoke in the halls of the 
College, or in any of the public rooms, or on the porches of the 
building. 

No Student shall leave the College Edifice to board in town, 
without previously making known to the President of the Insti- 
tution his wish to do so, and designating the place at which he 
designs to board. 

No Student shall be permitted to leave the College Edifice 
to board elsewhere, without paying his arrearages to the Steward. 

If it be ascertained that improper conduct, on the part of the 
Students, be permitted at any of the boarding-houses, the Stu- 
dents shall not be permitted to continue there. 

Every Student who does not room in the College edifice, 
shall be required to designate a room to be occupied by him, 
during the intervals of recitations and worship, and he shall im- 
mediately retire to it, after coming to College, and shall not be 
permitted, during the hours of study, to walk through the halls. 



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